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It's the start of award season and to have the web where more video is produced, published and consumed to finally have an awards show that acknowledges them is very welcomed and why we're excited to share the nominations with you.
The Inaugural IAWTV Awards show will be held at CES in Las Vegas (where Mingle Media TV will be attending and covering) so you get all the latest news. The winners will be honored Thursday, January 12, 2012 at a live ceremony at the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas during the prestigious International CES.
Without further ado – here's the list of nominees for this year's event:
Best Comedy Web Series
•Gigi: Almost American
•The Guild
•The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
•Video Game Reunion
Best Drama Web Series
•Anyone But Me
•CELL: The Web Series
•Pioneer One
•RCVR/Web Series
Best Hosted Taped Web Series
•A Comicbook Orange
•ETC – Entertainment, Technology, Culture
•NextMovie Daily
•The Web.Files
Best Hosted Live Web Series
•Geek Beat LIVE
•Indie Intertube
•Kevin Pollak's Chat Show
•Stupid For Movies
•What's Trending with Shira Lazar
Best Animated Web Series
•CliffsNotes Films
•Dick Figures
•Red vs. Blue
•Sketch 22
•The World of Bruce McCall
Best Documentary Web Series
•Beyond the Gallery
•Deja View
•Don't Ask, Don't Tell
•The Founders
•White Collar Brawler
Best Variety Web Series
•Fanboy Funhouse
•Kids React
•Mark Malkoff
•Stripped Down Live
•Team Unicorn
Best News Web Series
•Daily Ticker
•Tech News Today
•The Philip Defranco Show
•The Woodward Report
Best Educational Web Series
•Engineer Your Space
•Financially Fit
•The Great Camera Shootout 2011
•What You Can Do
Best Writing (Comedy)
•Felicia Day, The Guild
•Jeff Lewis, The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
•Marilyn Anne Michaels and Dominic Conti, The Best Friend
•Jessica Mills, Awkward Embraces
•Steve Silverman, Pretty
Best Writing (Drama)
•Vidas Barzdukas, AIDAN 5
•Mark Gardner, CELL: The Web Series
•Susan Miller and Tina Cesa Ward, Anyone But Me
•David Nett, Rick Robinson & Andrew R. Deutsch, Night of the Zombie King
•David Van Eyssen and Brian Horiuchi, RCVR/Web Series
Best Writing (Non-Fiction)
•Benny Fine and Rafi Fine, Kids React
•Grace Helbig, Daily Grace
•Rudy Jahchan, A Comicbook Orange
•Scott Lynch, The Great Camera Shootout 2011
•Nar Williams, NextMovie Daily
Best Directing (Comedy)
•Sean Becker, The Guild
•Sean Becker, The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
•Sandeep Parikh, Legend of Neil
•Steve Silverman, Pretty
•Frederick Snyder, SOLO: The Series
Best Directing (Drama)
•Ben Bays, AIDAN 5
•Tina Cesa Ward, Anyone But Me
•David Nett, Night of the Zombie King
•Chris Preksta, The Mercury Men
•David Van Eyssen, RCVR/Web Series
Best Directing (Non-Fiction)
•Danny Cameron, DadLabs
•Benny Fine and Rafi Fine, Kids React
•Sandra J. Payne, The Web.Files
•Brett Register, What's Trending with Shira Lazar
•Mike Rotman, Kevin Pollak's Chat Show
Best Female Performance (Comedy)
•Alexis Boozer (Brynn Arbor), Leap Year
•Emma Caulfield (Emma Caulfield), Bandwagon The Series
•Felicia Day (Codex), The Guild
•Julie Ann Emery (Emily), Then we got HELP!
•Hillary B. Smith (Ellie), Fumbling thru the Pieces
Best Female Performance (Drama)
•Jourdan Gibson (The Woman/Sarah), CELL: The Web Series
• Rachael Hip-Flores (Vivian McMillan), Anyone But Me
•Jeri Ryan (Sonya Blade), Mortal Kombat: Legacy
• Maya Sayre (Det. Morgan Riley), AIDAN 5
• Taryn Southern (Jamie Phillips), BlackBoxTV: The Series
Best Male Performance (Comedy)
• Yuri Baranovsky (Aaron Morrison), Leap Year
• Jeff Lewis (Vork), The Guild
• Jeff Lewis (Stan), The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
•Jonathan Nail (Scott Drizhal), SOLO: The Series
• Sandeep Parikh (Zaboo), The Guild
Best Male Performance (Drama)
• Dingani Beza (Patrick Aubert), Asylum
• Bryan Michael Block (Det. James Aidan), AIDAN 5
• Daniel Bonjour (Luke Weber), RCVR/Web Series
•Maxwell Glick (Hicks), Night of the Zombie King
• Kevin McCarthy (The Man), CELL: The Web Series
Best Host (Taped)
• Khail Anonymous, ETC – Entertainment, Technology, Culture
• Burnie Burns, Immersion
• Kristyn Burtt, The Web.Files
• Casey McKinnon, A Comicbook Orange
• Brad Powell, DadLabs
Best Host (Live)
• April Grant and Amanda Shockley, Indie Intertube
• Mark Keizer and Wade Major, Stupid For Movies
• Shira Lazar, What's Trending with Shira Lazar
• Kevin Pollak, Kevin Pollak's Chat Show
• Curt Smith, Stripped Down Live
Best Cinematography
• Andrew R. Deutsch, Night of the Zombie King
• Christopher Charles Kempinski, Riese: Kingdom Falling
•C. Kim Miles, Mortal Kombat: Legacy
•Iskra Valtcheva and Michael Morlan, CELL: The Web Series
•Joost Van Starrenburg, RCVR/Web Series
Best Design
•Greg Aronowitz, Dragon Age: Redemption
•Ben Brown and Jason Mowry, AIDAN 5
•Jonathan Nail and Michael Levine, SOLO: The Series
•Kelly Wasserman, RCVR/Web Series
•Eric Whitney, Continuum
Best Costume Design
•Katie Broad, Fallout: Nuka Break
•Jenny Green, Dan Crawley and Thais Yuki, Video Game Reunion
•Kristin Ingram, The Guild
•Megan Leson, Riese: Kingdom Falling
•Shawna Trpcic, Dragon Age: Redemption
Best Makeup/Special Effects
•Greg Aronowitz and Kimberly Graczyk, Dragon Age: Redemption
•Michael Del Rossa, RCVR/Web Series
•Kimberly Graczyk, The Guild
•Ralis Kahn, Bianca Appice and Shintaro Kakioka, Fallout: Nuka Break
•Jamie Register, A Good Knight's Quest
Best Visual Effects
•Chad Briggs, Continuum
•Lawson Demming, Rocket Studios and Tunnel Post, RCVR/Web Series
•Keegen Douglas, Mortal Kombat: Legacy
•Shawn Likley, AIDAN 5
•Chris Preksta, The Mercury Men
Best Editing
•Fawaz Al-Matrouk, Goldilocks
•Jeff Cowan, RCVR/Web Series
•Matthew Lyons and Kirby Jinnah, Riese: Kingdom Falling
•Chris Preksta and Tyson VanSkiver, The Mercury Men
•Tony E. Valenzuela, BlackBoxTV: The Series
Best Original Music
•Rob Gokee, Night of the Zombie King
•Rob Gokee, SOLO: The Series
•Mike Jackson, AIDAN 5
•Peace Nistades, Dragon Age: Redemption
•Brian Satterwhite, CELL: The Web Series
Best Supplemental Content
•Kids React
•RCVR/Web Series
•The Further Adventures of Cupid and Eros
•The Mercury Men
•Vampire Zombie Werewolf
Best Interactive/Social Media Experience
•CliffsNotes Films
•Kids React
•RCVR/Web Series
•Stupid For Movies
•What's Trending with Shira Lazar
Best Web Site Design
•Engineer Your Space
•RCVR/Web Series
•Ruby Skye P.I.
•The Guild
Best Distribution Platform
Nominees for the Inaugural IAWTV Awards were chosen by majority vote of the active voting membership of the IAWTV from over 350 officially submitted web series. Only episodes of a web series as defined by the IAWTV that were released during the period of January 1, 2010 through October 31, 2011 were considered for nomination in the Inaugural IAWTV Awards and only so long as at least two or more episodes of the web series were released within the eligibility period.
About the IAWTV Awards
The IAWTV Awards is an official web television industry awards show established for content creators, by content creators. The event serves as a platform for members of the IAWTV to honor the best of their profession, while networking among industry luminaries and supporting the IAWTV. Proceeds raised from the show are used for the betterment of the community by providing more member resources as well as professional development and education for professionals working in web television. For more information, please visit http://iawtv.org/awards/ or follow us on twitter at @iawtvawards.
About The International Academy of Web Television
The International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV) is a nonprofit organization comprised of leaders in the field of Web television, Web video and the digital entertainment industries. Founded in 2009, the IAWTV is helping to shape the rapidly evolving Web television industry while providing a venue for the acknowledgement of artistic and technological achievement in original entertainment distributed on the open Internet. IAWTV members include actors, agents, composers, content developers, directors, editors, producers, technology innovators, writers, and other industry professionals all of whom joined the organization based on their passion and dedication to advance the craft of Web television. For more information, please visit www.iawtv.org or follow us on twitter @iawtv.


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Security researchers have uncovered a newly discovered bug in Oracle's Java framework that allows attackers to bypass important security protections designed to prevent malware attacks.
The security improvements were introduced in Java 7 Update 10, and they came after a spate of in-the-wild attacks exploited fully patched versions of Java. Those allowed crooks to surreptitiously install malware on the computers of unsuspecting people using Java browser plugins. By default, the change required end users to manually allow the execution of Java code not digitally signed by a trusted authority. Users also had the ability to prevent any unsigned Java applet from running at all. Some security experts praised Oracle for adding the feature because it promised to drastically reduce the success of attacks that exploit security bugs in Java.
"Unfortunately, the above is only a theory," security researcher Adam Gowdiak wrote on Sunday, referring to the way the protections are supposed to block untrusted code from running on end-user computers. "In practice, it is possible to execute an unsigned (and malicious!) Java code without a prompt corresponding to security settings configured in Java Control Panel."
Oracle representatives didn't immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment for this post. In addition to shoring up the quality of the Java code base, many security professionals have called on Oracle to communicate more quickly and effectively when it learns of new vulnerabilities in recent versions of its software.
As a result of the vulnerability, Gowdiak wrote in an e-mail posted to the Bugtraq mail list, "unsigned Java code can be successfully executed on a target Windows system regardless of the four Java Control Panel settings." He said Security Explorations, the Poland-based security firm he runs, has submitted proof-of-concept attack code to Oracle. It successfully overrides the protections on a fully patched Windows 7 machine that's configured to run Java 7 Update 11 with the "very high" security setting.


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Moose shows up at German office building
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BERLIN – Maybe he got hungry?
A moose on the loose in the eastern German city of Dresden evaded capture before getting stuck inside an office building, tantalizingly close to the canteen.
A spokesman for Dresden police says the young bull walked into the building housing German industrial giant Siemens shortly before lunchtime Monday.
Marko Laske says officers and wildlife spent six hours trying to shoo the moose into a container but eventually had to resort to using a tranquilizer gun after he refused to follow orders.
The animal, likely to have come from neighboring Poland, will be released back into the wild.


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The Situation of False Confessions
Posted by The Situationist Staff on December 29, 2009
Ian Herbert, one of the very best translators of mind science research for popular audiences, has written an informative and disconcerting article, "The Psychology and Power of False Confessions" for the latest issue of The Observer." Here are some excerpts.
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We know that false confessions do happen on a fairly regular basis. Because of advances in DNA evidence, the Innocence Project has been able to exonerate more than 200 people who had been wrongly convicted, 49 of whom had confessed to the crime we now know they didn't commit. In a survey of 1,000 college students, four percent of those who had been interrogated by police said they gave a false confession.
But Why?
Why do people confess to crimes they didn't commit? . . . . In the November 2004 issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, APS Fellow Saul Kassin looked at the body of research and described how the police are able to interrogate suspects until they confess to a crime they didn't commit.
Generally, it starts because people give up their Miranda rights. In fact, Richard A. Leo found that a majority of people give up the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney. In fact, according to self-report data, innocent suspects gave up their rights more often than guilty suspects (most told Leo either that this was because they felt that they didn't have anything to hide because they were innocent or that they thought it would make them look guilty).
Once a suspect starts talking, the police can use a variety of techniques to make the accused feel as though they are better off confessing than continuing to deny (these include promises of leniency and threats of harsher interrogation or sentences). If a suspect feels like a conviction is inevitable not matter what he or she says, confessing may seem like a good idea.
But, in some cases, the accused comes to believe that he or she actually did commit the crime. It's been shown repeatedly that memory is quite malleable and unreliable. Elizabeth Loftus has repeatedly shown that the human brain can create memories out of thin air with some prompting. In a famous series of experiments, Loftus, APS Past President, was able to help people create memories for events that never happened in their lives simply through prompting. She helped them "remember" being lost in a shopping mall when they were children, and the longer the experiment went on, the more details they "remembered." The longer police interrogate a suspect, emphatic about his guilt and peppering their interrogation with details of the crime, the more likely a suspect is to become convinced himself.
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Despite the evidence that false confessions are a regular occurrence, most jurors struggle with the concept . . . . Confessions are difficult to discount, even if they appear to be coerced. Years ago, Kassin noticed that cases with confessions have an unusually high conviction rate, and since then he has dedicated his life to studying why that happens and what can be done about it.
In a 1997 study, Kassin and colleague Katherine Neumann gave subjects case files with weak circumstantial evidence plus either a confession, an eyewitness account, a character witness, or no other evidence. Across the board, prospective jurors were more likely to vote guilty if a confession was included in the trial, even when they were told that the defendant was incoherent at the time of the confession and immediately recanted what he said.
Kassin and Neumann also did two simultaneous studies to further explore the power of confessions. In one, they had people watch a trial and turn a dial to rate the extent to which evidence convinced them the defendant was guilty or innocent. The other asked potential jurors after the trial which evidence was most powerful. In both the mid-trial and post-trial ratings, jurors saw the confession as the most incriminating. Other studies have shown that conviction rates rise even when jurors see confessions as coerced and even when they say that the confession played no role in their judgment. "I don't honestly think juries stand a chance in cases involving confessions," Kassin says. "They're bound to convict."
Kassin says he doesn't blame jurors. He travels around the country lecturing on the psychology of false confessions and he says "the most common reaction I get from a lay audience is, 'Well, I would never do that. I would never confess to something I didn't do.' And people apply that logic in the jury room. It's just that basic belief that false confessions don't occur." What's more, the evidence juries are given in conjunction with the false confessions is very damning, Kassin says. False confessions of guilt often include vivid details of how a crime was committed — and why. Confessions sometimes even come with an apology to the family. It's no wonder jurors have trouble discounting them.
What confessions rarely include is an explanation of why the person confessed. In most states, police are not required to videotape the interrogations, just the confessions. So juries don't get to see any potential police coercion and they don't get to see the police planting those vivid details in the minds of the suspects.
And that may be just the tip of the iceberg. Kassin believes that confessions can have a dramatic impact on trials even if they never make it into a courtroom. They can influence potential eyewitnesses, for example, and taint other kinds of evidence.
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To read the entire article, including a section discussing Kassin's fascinating research with psychologist Lisa Hasel testing the effect of confessions on eyewitnesses, click here. To visit Ian Herbert's superb blog, We're Only Human, click here.
For a sample of related Situationist posts, see "The Legal Situation of the Underclass," "The Situation of Criminality – Abstract," "The Painful Situation of Guilt," "A Situationist View of Criminal Prosecutors," "Jennifer Eberhardt's "Policing Racial Bias" – Video," "The Justice Department, Milgram, & Torture," "Why Torture? Because It Feels Good (at least to "Us")," "The Situation of Solitary Confinement," "The Situation of Punishment (and Forgiveness)," "Clarence Darrow on the Situation of Crime and Criminals," "The Situation of Punishment," "Why We Punish," "The Situation of Death Row," and "Lessons Learned from the Abu Ghraib Horrors."
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>A couple things have happened lately that have caused me to spend some serious time contemplating diversity issues in LIS. The first was a post made on a professional listserv I follow. One individual shared a letter she had written to Iowa legislators about a number of issues, including library funding. She mentioned that the letter included other issues, but that she shared it on the list for those who were struggling to find words when talking to elected officials about libraries. For those of you who aren't from Iowa, you may or may not know that a lot of people here are very divided at the moment over the issue of gay marriage, and the fact that this woman's letter included mention of her support for gay marriage was upsetting to some other list members.
One member's response was basically, "if she wants to go against what THE BIBLE says, that's her right, but keep libraries out of it." I tend to stay away from angry listserv discussions (people get riled up about everything from tuna fish to book boards on the lists I follow, and most of the time I just sigh and delete the thread), but this instance was one where I felt compelled to respond and say that the list included non-Christian individuals, and that not only did that response make them uncomfortable, it took time and attention away from the library issues the list was created to discuss. I did not mention my stance on gay marriage in the hopes that I could diffuse things rather than add my own anger to the discussion (but, for the record, I'm an ardent supporter!) I also wanted to avoid belittling the author's views, because she has most likely formed them with as much care as I have formed my own.
This angry response, and a number of others on both sides, gave me a chance to reflect on what was happening. Are these discussions we should be having on professional listservs? I think the answer can be yes, but the trick is how we approach it. As librarians and info pros, we are in charge of providing information to people and (I hope) focusing more heavily on what their needs are than what about them we don't like. I suspect most of us do this very well, and so the list might be a place we can talk about how to provide services to diverse groups or, maybe, even to discuss our own views or how we react when confronted with a patron we find challenging. My request is that we refrain from the anger and divisiveness I saw in some of those responses and focus instead on the issues and on discussion rather than on tearing each other down. About a week later, Micah Vandegrift published this awesome diversity post on the Hack Library School blog, and it made me think that maybe now would be a good time to share some of the thoughts I've had on diversity since I've been in LIS.
Anyone who's in LIS (probably) knows that our field is *white.* It's mostly white, middle class women to be exact. There are some men in my program, but only a handful, and the same can be said for racial diversity. Like Micah, I've done my share of studying hegemony and could write papers on the way our society is structured to create and reinforce privilege. As someone who'll be devoting quite a bit of my life to the academy, this is interesting to think about, because academia, in many ways, is an institution accessible to those with some degree of money and privilege. Sometimes, I feel like participating in the academy is another way I'm participating in an institution that supports hegemony. It can be frustrating, and it makes me feel like I've gotten progressively more stumbly and awkward discussing diversity because there's so little opportunity for those discussions.
I'm grateful that we have awesome faculty, and that I've found a couple students here and there who I can sit down with and grapple with these issues. That being said, I also feel like not everyone feels especially comfortable having discussions about privilege and the ways in which institutions support privilege, because it forces them to confront the fact that being a white, middle class woman comes with a pretty hefty dose of privilege (want some good examples? See Peggy McIntosh's awesome article). In Social Informatics, I remember students getting visibly uncomfortable during discussions of difference and privilege, and this made me feel uncomfortable too! The important thing to remember is that these discussions are *really* uncomfortable, but that's not a bad thing. We have to confront our discomfort at being told that things that we take for granted (like the color of bandages!) are privileges not shared by everyone. I think this would be a huge help for LIS students both as providers of services (how does our social structure shape those services, how well people can access them, etc.?) and as members of a field where diversity is something we hope to promote! I think we also need to broaden our concept of diversity to include not only racial diversity, but also sexual orientation, disability, gender (more men!), and any other myriad ways in which we are all unique. LIS students (and faculty, new professionals, and anyone else): what are ways we can engage in constructive and respectful discussion with the end goal of educating and fostering understanding?
So how do we promote diversity in our field? This is a question I don't really have an answer to (and if you have ideas, I would love to hear them!) One thing I think we should avoid is measuring our success in building a diverse field through numbers alone. Saying, 'wow, the percentage of black librarians has gone up from 2% to 5%!' (I have no ideas how accurate those numbers are) is a great jumping off point for saying our field has gotten more diverse, but if we just look at the numbers we risk narrowing our vision of the field by focusing on how we appear on paper than on why we want to be diverse in the first place! It also risks turning a group of people into nothing but numbers rather than the complex creatures all people are, which isn't fair to the professionals we're talking about or to the people discussing the numbers. I propose that one way to help make LIS more diverse is to include everyone in the discussion: what makes this field attractive? Are there ways that we can promote access to education for underprivileged groups? Most importantly, what does diversity mean to LIS? By this I'm thinking how much we gain from increasing diversity: by bringing in a variety of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences, we can better understand the people we work with and the world we live in. Thoughts? Ideas?


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New Zealand woman drives, texts while sleeping
Texting while driving can be deadly. Adding to the danger: texting and driving while asleep at the wheel.
A woman in New Zealand managed to drive — and even send her friends text messages — for hours while asleep, according to a story in the New Zealand Herald. Miraculously, she did not get into an accident.
According to News 3 New Zealand, the unnamed woman, who reportedly suffers from a sleep condition and was taking sleeping pills at the time, got behind the wheel and drove around New Zealand all night.
The sleep-driver reportedly left her house in Hamilton, headed to Auckland and then to her former home in Mount Maunganui on the coast late on Tuesday night, driving for a total of five hours and about 190 miles.
As she sleep-drove, she texted her friends, who believed she sent them while half asleep, says New Zealand's News 3.
Police say that although the woman was texting during her drive, she was unconscious the entire time and has no memory of the nighttime ride.
Law enforcement began tracking the woman's movement through her cell phone after receiving a call from a concerned friend, but weren't able to find her as she kept driving.
"While all this was going on, police were scanning any reports of unusual or concerning driving as we attempted to find the Toyota and prevent a potential tragedy," Sgt. Dave Litton was quoted in the Daily Mail.
Police said that the woman's cousin finally found her at her former residence on the coast, asleep, slumped over the wheel of her car.
"While her being found safe and well is a relief for everyone involved, the potential for tragedy was huge and we're urging people suffering medical conditions to be open and honest with their doctors and seek advice on the medication they are prescribed," Litton told the New Zealand Herald.
Police have sought an urgent order forbidding the woman to drive and to seek medical advice on her suitability to remain holding her drivers license, the New Zealand Herald adds.


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JEFF VRABEL: Trouble in the food group 'chocotastic'
Having just turned down the administration's request to appoint me War Czar — listen, the time's just not right for me — I'd like to turn my attention to something just as pressing yet considerably more fattening: counterfeit chocolate.
It turns out that chocolate, like American values, the children, Christmas, and The Much Better Way That Things Used to be in the '50s, is under attack by hippies, liberals, the government and activist judges. At least it is according to the actual Web site Don'tMessWithOurChocolate.com, which demands that YOUR VOICE NEEDS TO BE HEARD, TO HELP SAVE CHOCOLATE AS CHOCOLATE! So, for the love of Pete, raise your voice! Uh, when you're done chewing, that is, we don't want brown 100 Grand spittle all over the place in here, I just cleaned the rug.
Here's the problem: International cabal Big Chocolate is pushing for the FDA to approve change in the basic formula of chocolate, "by allowing the use of vegetable fat substitutes in place of cocoa butter." So, basically, things would be called chocolate that would have no cocoa butter in them, which is highly misleading, much like labeling a shapeless glop of meat-ish substance a Whopper Jr. (It gets worse, too. Big Chocolate wants to replace almonds with Superballs, and start including in their recipes bits of ground-up kittens. I'm kidding, I'm kidding! Ground-up kittens would totally ruin the texture, as well as leave fur all over the place.)
I am joking, but this site is not. "Through the years, consumers have had a passionate love affair with chocolate," reads the Welcome note, written, ostensibly, by someone who has probably not actually had many passionate love affairs. "Chocolate is an indulgence that everyone can afford, and it provides comfort, pleasure and happiness."
This part is true; one of my little luxuries is snuggling up every night under a warm chocolate quilt; going to bed is like smearing myself with restfulness.
So what the site and chocoholics around the world purport to do, once they clean their mouths up, is demand, via an online grass-roots movement, that the FDA deny Big Chocolate the ability to fudge its recipe. Yeah, yeah. I don't feel good about puns like that, you know.
That said, the proprietors behind Don'tMessWithOurChocolate.com, in the interest of fostering an "open an honest dialogue" and because they're smart-sounding hippies with no real convictions, have furnished an equal-time response by the CMA (Chocolate Manufacturers Association, as well as the Country Music Association, and I'd bet people go to the wrong seminars there all the time), which reads in part: "The Chocolate Manufacturers Association has not advocated on behalf of any specific change to the standards of identity for chocolate." So, yeah! And, uh, what was everyone fighting about again? And why am I singing the Oompa-Loompa song in my head?
The response by the CMA, which includes Nestle, Hershey, Archer Daniels Midland and Willy Wonka, goes on to say, in highly bold type, that "Any update to the standards of identity for chocolate will take years — not days, months or weeks — to review ... FDA approval of a standard of identity for white chocolate took 10 years." So the next time you hear someone whining that the federal response to Katrina came tragically late, you just tell them, pfft, you just count your blessings, champ, it's not like you were waiting to get an update to the standards of identity in chocolate. Also, the CMA says that if the FDA elects to change the standards, "a company could continue making choocolate as they always have." My point being, this doesn't seem like a debate with a pressing time element to it. So let's all just sit down and relax with a nice, tall glass of refreshing vegetable oil.


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A little vial of Hindu Honeysuckle arrived at my door a few weeks ago, a welcome surprise during this time of remodeling chaos (see below). Currently, my perfumes are tucked away safely in the attic, save for a select few, so I welcomed the opportunity for something new and different. When I read the PR card that accompanied my sample, I was both reluctant and intrigued.
Jasmine sambac, not honeysuckle, is the featured floral, and since I've been hit with a case of jasmine fatigue, I admittedly had to hold back a heavy sigh. Then the word "coriander" popped into view, and my interest was sparked. Coriander encompasses so much of what I love in a scent. It's a culinary spice of course, so it's slightly piquant with a vibrant citrus back note. At the same time, coriander is also sweetly floral which lends itself beautifully to perfumery.
Because honeysuckle oil is very difficult to extract, making it rare and quite costly, you won't find it in Hindu Honeysuckle. In lieu of this delicate blossom, Charna Ethier, the nose behind Providence Perfume Co, created a "honeysuckle accord" with Indian Jasmine Sambac, Indian coriander, vetiver, rose absolute, botanical musk seed, and bergamot.
As mentioned above, jasmine sambac is the dominant note, and a glorious one at that. This jasmine is so clear and vivid that it radiates sambac's pure essence. It smells just like the spicy and musky sambac concrete that I purchased at NYC's Enfleurage a few years ago. Like coriander, sambac also possesses a bright citrus quality that is heightened by the use of bergamot in Hindu Honeysuckle's blend. It is not indolic in the slightest which would have detracted from its vivid and powerful opening.
Jasmine sambac continues to be a strong presence throughout the evolution of Hindu Honeysuckle, but within the heart, coriander and ambrette emerge, grounding the fragrance with earthen musk. In the drydown, I took note of vetiver before realizing that is was actually vetiver. After a couple hours of skintime, Hindu Honeysuckle became surprisingly powdery in that powder-without-sweetness way that only vetiver can provide. The merging of vetiver and coriander in this final stage is wholly unique and really lovely.
For an all natural perfume, I found Hindu Honeysuckle's sillage and longevity to be more than impressive. It lasts on my skin for an entire day, and its scent wafts with moderate strength from top to heart, and then gently through the drydown. Charna is now offering a 10 sample coffrett or you can buy individual samples as well. Along with Hindu Honeysuckle, I strongly recommend trying Osmanthus Oolong. It too is really special.
Hindu Honeysuckle is available at Potion. $45 for 5ml glass roller ball.
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Late Innings
September 7, 2010
John Ford directed a handful of television shows, but the most Fordian television episode I've ever seen is "A Head of Hair," a Have Gun Will Travel from 1960.
Scripted by the unsung master Harry Julian Fink, "A Head of Hair" sends Paladin deep into Indian country to find a long-ago kidnapped white woman, who may or may not have been spotted from a distance by a cavalry officer (George Kennedy). The girl is blonde, but we'll learn that hers is not the head of hair to which the title refers. As a guide, Paladin recruits a white man who used to live as a Sioux, but who is now a destitute alcoholic. The first sparse exchange between them lays out the impossibility of the mission and establishes BJ's quiet self-contempt:
PALADIN: Would a couple of men have any chance at all?
ANDERSON: Men? A couple of Oglala Sioux, maybe. Maybe even me, seven, eight years ago. But you? They'd stake you out between two poles and flay you alive.
But Anderson takes the job because he needs drinking money. The series of tense confrontations with the Nez Perce through which he and Paladin then navigate are not standard cowboys-versus-Indians stuff. They are precise, specific rituals of masculine and tribal pride, none of which take a predictable shape. Because Paladin is a novice among the Nez Perce and Anderson is an expert, Fink has a clever device by which to clue the audience in on what's at stake in each conflict. Gradually, these question-and-answer sessions also disclose a profound philosophical schism between the two men. Paladin is preoccupied with personal honor and ethics, while Anderson is consumed with a self-abasing nihilism. Both are deadly pragmatists, but only one of them will take the scalps of dead braves.
The Nez Perce mission concludes in victory, but it comes with a price. Success turns the two trackers against one another, for reasons that Paladin cannot understand until after violence erupts between them. "Why? Why?" are Paladin's last words to Anderson in "A Head of Hair," and only the answer is the unsatisfactory moral of the story of the scorpion and the frog: because it was in his nature.
Maybe it's a coincidence that "A Head of Hair" falls chronologically between the two John Ford westerns that depict a two-man journey into the wilderness in search of a missing white woman (or women) in the custody of Indians. Both of the films imagine such captivity as a kind of unspeakable horror. "A Head of Hair" doesn't dwell on that aspect of the story, but it does glance at the repatriated Mary Grange (Donna Brooks) long enough to construe her as lost, maybe for good, in the breach between two cultures. Another spare Fink line: "I would have gone with him," Mary says, looking sadly after a departing Anderson. "They say the Sioux are kind to their women."
I haven't yet identified the actor who plays Anderson because that's the blinking neon sign that points to Ford. It is Ben Johnson, the ex-stuntman who was an important member of Ford's "repertory company" during the late forties and early fifties. Johnson delivers what may be his finest performance prior to the Oscar-winning turn in The Last Picture Show: understated, unadorned, just barely hinting at a deep well of sadness and self-loathing. Imagine that line – "maybe even me, seven, eight years ago" – in Johnson's voice and then picture the flicker of a weary smile that goes with it.
There's another Ford fellow-traveler in the mix here, too: the director, Andrew V. McLaglen, was the son of Victor McLaglen, who won an Oscar for The Informer and overlapped with Ben Johnson in two of the Cavalry Trilogy films. McLaglen didn't have Ford's eye but he did get to shoot "A Head of Hair" on location (in Lone Pine?), and frame his actors against the landscape in a way that reminds us the wilderness is part of the story. The precision in McLaglen's compositions match the precision in Fink's scenario; when those three braves whose scalps are about to be up for grabs turn their backs on Paladin, there's room to believe that maybe gunplay really has been avoided. All that's left is something to give "A Head of Hair" some size, and that comes via Jerry Goldsmith's sweeping brass- and woodwind-driven score. It was one of only two that Goldsmith wrote for Have Gun Will Travel.
"A Head of Hair" falls within a string of amazingly strong segments that opened Have Gun's fourth season. There's another Fink masterpiece, "The Shooting of Jessie May," a four-character confrontation that ends in a really shocking explosion of violence; "Saturday Night," a jail-cell locked-room mystery with a dark underbelly; "The Poker Fiend," a study of degenerate gambling with an existential component and a mesmerizing, atypically internal performance from Peter Falk; and "The Calf," a cutting allegory about a man (Denver Pyle, also a revelation) obsessed with the wire fence that marks his territory. Lighter entries like the baseball comedy "Out at the Old Ballpark" and "The Tender Gun," with Jeanette Nolan as a crotchety female marshal under siege (Nolan, like Walter Brennan, had a with-teeth and a without-teeth performance; guess which one this is), are not as strong but they do demonstrate the impressive tonal range of Have Gun. One measure of a great television series – one which The X-Files taught me – is the extent to which it can avoid being the same show each week while still remaining, on a fundamental level, the same show each week.
The source of the fourth-season shot in Have Gun's arm? A new producer and story editor, Frank Pierson and Albert Ruben, took over, and it's not a coincidence that both were superb writers. By that time, the star of the series, Richard Boone, had seized control of it in a way that would soon be common for TV stars but that was unprecedented in 1960.
Boone got to direct a lot of episodes but, more importantly, he had approval over the story content and the behind-the-camera personnel. A snob who thought he should be doing serious acting, not westerns, Boone set out to make Have Gun as un-western a western as possible. That's probably how Pierson and Ruben got their jobs: Boone wanted bosses (or "bosses") who would be down with phasing out the cowboy schtick in favor of broad comedies, existential tragedies, pastiches of Verne and Shakespeare, and so on. Of course, Pierson and Ruben fell out of favor with Boone and he kicked them to the curb after a year or so . . . but that's a story for another day.
Regime change and star ego-trips also characterized Wanted: Dead or Alive in its third and final season. Steve McQueen had always been the whole show, but by 1959, everybody knew he was destined for major stardom, including McQueen himself, who seemed to be using the final run of episodes as a laboratory in which to determine exactly which tics and slouches to incorporate into his definitive screen persona. Wanted: Dead or Alive also got a new producer for its home stretch, a man named Ed Adamson. Supposedly McQueen drove him crazy. Adamson was a prolific writer and, either to save money or time or just because McQueen was all the hassle he could take, he took the unusual step of divvying up all twenty-six of that year's script assignments between himself and one other writer, Norman Katkov.
Katkov was one of my first oral history subjects. Since I published that piece, I've used this blog to weigh in on some of Katkov's work that I hadn't seen at the time of our interview. The most important of the shows that were unavailable to me then was Wanted: Dead or Alive. Katkov's fourteen episodes represent his only sustained work on a series other than Ben Casey, and so I am a little disappointed not to be able to call them another set of overlooked gems. In most cases, without consulting the credits, I'd have a hard time telling which episodes are Katkov's and which were written by Adamson, a straight-arrow action and mystery man.
Katkov managed a couple of idiosyncratic scripts, like "The Twain Shall Meet," in which Josh Randall teams up with a fancy easterner named Arthur Pierce Madison (Michael Lipton). Madison is a journalist, which allows Katkov (a former beat reporter) to get in some knowing gags. Contrary to the usual genre expectation of the western hero's stoic modesty, Josh is intrigued, even flattered, at the prospect of having his exploits recorded for posterity. Mary Tyler Moore has an amusing bit as a saloon girl who's even more dazzled by the prospect of fame. Katkov focuses on the differences in how Josh and Madison make their respective livings: the contrast between physical and intellectual (and, amusingly, steady versus freelance work). In a quiet moment, Madison asks, "Is it all you want?" Josh replies, "Almost." Westerns did not thrive on introspection, so it's a shock to see a show like Wanted: Dead or Alive take a pause to contemplate whether its hero is happy in his work.
Does it seem as if this space circles back sooner or later to a small group of very good writers? I would argue that the history of television circles that way, too. Anthony Lawrence: another oral history subject on whom I've followed up here, first on The Outcasts and now on Hawaii Five-O. Lawrence logged one episode each in the third and fourth season, and the trademarks I described out in my profile are evident in both. There are the show-offy literary allusions: "Two Doves and Mr. Heron" ends with a quote from the Buddha. There is the interest in topical issues, which began on Five-O with the germ-warfare classic "Three Dead Cows at Makapuu" (germ warfare). Lawrence followed that up with scripts on homosexuality (Vic Morrow, fruity in more ways than one, as a whack-job who fondles John Ritter in "Two Doves") and Vietnam ("To Kill or Be Killed").
There is also what may be Lawrence's defining trait as a writer: the unpredictable burst of emotional intensity within otherwise routine material. "To Kill or Be Killed" reminded me of how puzzled I was that the same Outer Limits writer could have come up with both the heart-rending "The Man Who Was Never Born" and the diffident, heavy-handed "The Children of Spider County." In "To Kill or Be Killed," Lawrence caps three hit-or-miss acts of family melodrama (dove son vs. hawk father) with a long, exhausting monologue – a tape-recorded suicide note that plays over horrified reaction shots of the other characters. It might seem like lazy writing, and maybe it was, to withhold all the emotion from a script and then dump it into the final minutes. But I think Lawrence was crazy like a fox. That monologue concerns My Lai (under a different name), something a lot of people watching Hawaii Five-O probably didn't want to hear about, and with his crude structural tactic Lawrence drops the topic in their laps like a turd on the dinner table.
Hawaii Five-O, in its fourth year, is almost exactly the same show as it was in its first. It's still a show that allows for a lot of variety in its formula – or rather, the alternation between six or eight different formulas. Unlike on Wanted: Dead or Alive, one can detect an individual authorial touch in many of the episodes. The lurid pulp shocker "Beautiful Screamer" is pure Stephen Kandel. The dullest espionage outings and the most heavy-handed McGarrett lectures usually trace back to the team of Jerry Ludwig and Eric Bercovici, who, unfortunately, wrote quite a few of each.
One of the most popular Five-Os, "Over Fifty? Steal," falls into this stretch of the series. It was penned by a writer new to the show, E. Arthur Kean. It's a semi-comedy in the cuddly-oldster-as-criminal-mastermind genre, featuring a smug Hume Cronyn as a serial robber who goes out of his way to taunt McGarrett and crew. I like "Over Fifty," but Kean's second script for the series deserves more attention. More diamond-hard than heart-shaped, "Ten Thousand Diamonds and a Heart" is another caper, but played deadly straight this time. It starts with a parking garage prison bust and turns into a jewel heist, which Kean sets up as a battle of wits between another master criminal (Tim O'Connor) and an impregnable high-rise. Kean fusses over the details: scale models, elevator schematics, medication for a bum ticker. Somehow, he makes the minutiae fascinating. They're the diamonds, and the heart is the clash between O'Connor and the "banker" (the guy who's funding the heist) played by Paul Stewart. It's a portrait of two paranoid career criminals who can't trust anyone but themselves, gnashing at each other until they tear their own caper apart.
I had seen a few of Kean's earlier scripts, for The Fugitive and The F.B.I., without having much of a reaction. But the Hawaii Five-Os that mark him down as, in the Sarrisian lexicon, a Subject For Further Research.
Also this year I've watched most of the fourth and penultimate season of NBC's Dr. Kildare, a once near-great doctor drama that slowly turned mushy and bland. Further research department: one of those turkeys marked the prime-time debut, as far as I can tell, of one E. Arthur Kean.
A few fourth-year episodes written by series veterans like Jerry McNeely and Archie L. Tegland still felt the old Dr. Kildare: tough, smart, sagacious. Tegland's "A Reverence For Life" trots out one of the standbys of the medical drama, a story of a patient who refuses life-saving treatment due to her religious convictions. My own inclinations always favor science over superstition; but Dennis Weaver, with his innate humility, is so perfect as the Jehovah's Witness whose wife is dying that I was rooting for him to prevail in his faith.
I am also partial to Christopher Knopf's "Man Is a Rock," a terrifying study of a heart attack victim (Walter Matthau) forced to confront his own mortality, and "Maybe Love Will Save My Apartment House," a zany romp by Boris Sobelman, who wrote a handful of very funny black comedies for Thriller and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. But Kildare's fourth year includes duds from other good writers, like Adrian Spies (Saints and Sinners) and Jack Curtis (Ben Casey), and that's often a sign of tinkering from upstairs.
By 1964 Richard Chamberlain was one of TV's hottest stars, a heartthrob with a viable recording career. MGM (which produced Dr. Kildare) had cashed in on his popularity by building three medium-budget feature films around him in three years. Both the studio and the network had a big investment in Chamberlain, and I'm guessing that executive producer Norman Felton may have capitulated to pressure to give viewers a maximum dose of Chamberlain romancing and singing. I'm not kidding about the singing: "Music Hath Charms" is a plotless let's-put-on-a-show show about an amateur night for the hospital staff. I can't decide which episode is the series' nadir: "A Journey to Sunrise," a vanity piece that gives Raymond Massey (who co-starred as Kildare's windbag boss Dr. Gillespie) a dual role as a dying Hemingway-esque writer, or "Rome Will Never Leave You," a prophetically titled, turtle-paced three-parter that contrives gooey romances for both Kildare and Gillespie during an Italian business trip.
I've proposed corporate greed as the major cause for the de-fanging of the once sharp Dr. Kildare, but there's also the David Victor factor. In the years before signing on as Norman Felton's right-hand man, Victor was a hack genre writer (with a partner, Herbert Little, Jr., who disappeared after Victor hit the big time). In the years after he and Felton parted ways, Victor copied the Kildare format and quickly ran it into comfortable mediocrity as the head man on Marcus Welby. Was Victor the source of the blandness that set in on Kildare as the show's exec, Norman Felton (by all accounts a discerning producer), turned his attention to developing The Lieutenant and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Maybe he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time – but if so, Victor was in an even wronger place at an even wronger time a year later, when he moved over to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. as the supervising producer who supervised that show's second- and third-season slide into cringeworthy camp.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: When we last checked in on TV's favorite spies, we found a mortified Robert Vaughn frugging with a man in a gorilla suit. I had hoped to follow that cheap shot with a report on how The Man From U.N.C.L.E. rebounded in its final half-season, as new producer Anthony Spinner followed the network's oops-we-fucked-up orders to take out the yuks and put back the action. I'd heard that the fourth season was "too grim," but hey, I like grim. Especially if it's the alternative to Solo and Kuryakin partying with Sonny and Cher or riding on stinkbombs (funny for Kubrick, not for Kuryakin). Grim is good.
Didn't work out that way. The fourth season isn't grim, it's dull. The plots are perfunctory, the characters cardboard, the casting uninspired. The books say that Spinner tried to bring U.N.C.L.E. back to its roots, but the shows play like nobody much cared what went on the screen. I gave up when I got to "The THRUSH Roulette Affair," which rien ne va pluses with one of the laziest deus ex machinas I've ever seen. See, THRUSH baddie is torturing some guy with a machine that figures out the victim's worst fear and then gets him to talk in a room full of (not at all scary) footage of said fear. In this case, the poor sucker is more afraid of being run over by a train. Wouldn't you know it, when the shit hits the fan, the evil scientist bursts out with a clumsy load of exposition: turns out he tested the machine on the main THRUSH baddie (Michael Rennie), and his greatest fear is exactly the same as the other guy's. Two trainophobes in a row! Which means that when the U.N.C.L.E. guys shove Rennie into the scaring-to-death machine, all of that (not at all scary) train stock footage is already cued up!
Usually I don't even notice plot holes but, seriously, this one's just insulting. How could Spinner or the writer (Arthur Weingarten) or the story editor (Irv Pearlberg) not come up with anything better than that? Especially since they swiped the idea from 1984 in the first place?
Another of the fourth season U.N.C.L.E.s spieled some boring Latin American palace intrigue (featuring not-at-all-Latin American Madlyn Rhue), which got me to thinking. The Lieutenant ended by sending its stateside serviceman hero off to die in Vietnam. U.N.C.L.E. should've gone out the same way, with Solo and Kuryakin headed off to Chile to assassinate Salvador Allende. That would've been my kind of grim.
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September 9, 2010 at 10:17 am
Stephen, you may be being a bit hard on David Victor. True, what you said about the fourth season of DR. KILDARE. I should know. I directed one of the shows you listed as the nadir of the series, and I agree. (And when you send me the copy of A JOURNEY TO SUNRISE, I shall be able to write about the backstage story of how Raymond Massey came to be cast as the guest star.) But back to David. You forgot to mention that he was the Associate Producer and story editor at the inception of the series. He took over as producer midway through the first season when Herb Hirschman left and he functioned as producer for Seasons 2 and 3.
April 1, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Great blog here…I just love the way you segue from one show to another. I'm the same way in conversations sometime.
May 29, 2014 at 12:39 pm
Wonderful blog, glad to have found it! I was surprised, though, to read that you thought Katkov's and Adamson's scripts for WDOA were indistinguishable. It was the distinctive spin of Katkov's that made me take note of his name and learn about him for the first time. To me, his episodes are whimsical and off-beat, with Josh often one step behind in the action and frequently made to look ridiculous. I enjoy them, but I also found myself wondering if the powers that were were punishing McQueen or at least putting him in his place by undercutting his image as a macho anti-hero from the previous seasons. Sometimes, Katkov pushes the absurdity so far that I can't take it. I admit, I liked my Josh Randall a bit more hard-edged, so I am happy when an Adamson script takes the show back into straightforward action again.
February 28, 2016 at 9:56 am
Fun to hear you praise Boris Sobelman , my uncle , and mention the humor in his work : "Maybe Love Will Save My Apartment House," a zany romp by Boris Sobelman, who wrote a handful of very funny black comedies for Thriller and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. " He also wrote a teleplay for the young "Star Trek ," "Return of the Archons " whose theme about the dangers of religion , and the shadow cast by the " perfect, " also incorporated , especially at the denouement , Boris' telltale humor .
July 13, 2017 at 2:11 pm
I have just recently become a fan of Have Gun-Will Travel and am impressed with the episodes written by Harry Julian Fink. Thank you for this post! It's one of the most enjoyable things I've read about the show.
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The reason HGWT is as good as it is because of Richard Boone and the people he brought on board. He knew the TV western was coming to an end which is why Have Gun was often very un-western. He wanted the show to be interesting, not what people were seeing on the other 20 westers that were on TV at the time. I don't think that makes him pretentious, I'd say ambitious. Head of Hair was shot in Beng, Oregon.


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The bill doesn't call for new spending, and stands in contrast to the approach taken in the Senate, where a last-minute compromise designed to attract more GOP votes would provide for a 'border surge' with $46 billion in new spending on drones, helicopters and other technology, a doubling of agents patrolling the border with Mexico and hundreds of miles of new fencing.
Even some supporters called the Senate deal overkill, and McCain acknowledged recently that 20,000 additional border patrol agents really weren't necessary. And although the deal was designed to win over Republicans concerned about border security, it hasn't convinced many in the House. They describe the Senate approach as throwing money at the problem and complain that it still gives too much discretion to the Obama administration.
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StormGain: Bitcoin Wallet AppLatest release: 1.29.0 ( 30th March 2023 ) 🔍 Last analysed 10th March 2021 . Custodial: The provider holds the keys
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Is the product self-custodial?If the answer is "no", we mark it as "Custodial: The provider holds the keys".
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Products that claim to be non-custodial but feature custodial accounts without very clearly marking those as custodial are also considered "custodial" as a whole to avoid misguiding users that follow our assessment.
This verdict means that the provider might or might not publish source code and maybe it is even possible to reproduce the build from the source code but as it is custodial, the provider already has control over the funds, so it is not a wallet where you would be in exclusive control of your funds.
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Thirty-nine-year-old James Foley was kidnapped in northwest Syria by unknown gunmen on Nov. 22, his parents said Thursday. He was in the country contributing videos to Agence France-Press, which has vowed to help secure his release.
Foley's parents, John and Diane Foley, decided to hold a news conference at their home to make a public plea to his captors because the Foleys haven't received any information about their son in six weeks.
'We just don't know anything,' Diane Foley said. 'We don't know who has him.'
They have kept the Christmas holiday lights on in the windows of their Rochester home as a vigil for their son's safe return.
'I appeal to the people who have Jim to let us know where he is and to help us secure his release,' John Foley said. 'We just pray that he's released.'
Twenty-eight journalists were killed in Syria in 2012, prompting the Committee to Protect Journalists to name Syria the most dangerous country in the world to work in last year.
The Foleys would not discuss any detail about efforts through the U.S. government or otherwise to secure their son's release. Not long ago, they lived through the same anguish and fear over their son's safety.
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Margaret, I watched the debate and then I went to bed comforted by the fact that Barack Obama would be President for four more years. I dreamt of a Supreme Court that actually believes all Americans are created equal and corporations are entities not people. In my dream, we looked for ways to increase voter turnout and not suppress it. And then I woke up and made the mistake of turning on cable news. Evidently Obama had won the debate, but Romney had proven himself presidential. Really? The guy with the sweaty upper lip and the mood swings that matched his policy swings? That guy was presidential? Did anybody actually watch the debate with the sound on?
You could almost hear Romney's heart break when he announced that we can't "kill our way out of this". As badly as he wants to start a few, there would be no wars for Romney. And a Republican without a war is like Sarah Palin without her early pregnancy test strip – a little scared and a lot in denial. It was hard for him, but even Romney realized that a debate about foreign policy really should focus at least a little bit on diplomacy and world peace. His fight with Russia, Iran, China, Egypt, Syria, and some place called Mali would all have to wait until after he got elected. Bush spoiled America's appetite for preemptive wars and Romney looked like he was about to cry. In an attempt to mislead undecided voters, he even had to give up on his desire for a continued war in Afghanistan. Bless his heart, he had held on to that one until the bitter end.
Romney has been campaigning to become President for seven years. In that time, we have learned very little about the man except that he is damn good at telling people what they want to hear. He governed in Massachusetts, but even they don't want him anymore. In this last debate, he finally admitted that people wanted to hear the truth. And the truth of the matter is, Romney thinks Obama really isn't that bad. Yes, Mr. Romney, you weren't going to be able to lie your way out of this one.
I've grown tired of pointing out that Romney is a liar. It took me awhile to put pen to paper on this one because I really didn't want to just make another list of all his lies and flip-flops. Eventually I decided to go the other way – the truth about Obama. Here is why I am voting for a second term for Barack Obama. Pay attention because if you have been watching Fox News and buying the Republican bullshit you might not know some of this…
- The federal government has gotten smaller, not bigger, under President Barack Obama. We now have fewer federal employees than we did in 2009.
- Government spending under President Obama has been smaller than the previous nine presidents. That goes back all the way to Eisenhower, and I am pretty sure all of the savings haven't come from a smaller navy. Those aircraft carriers are pretty damn expensive.
- Obama's healthcare plan will save money and provide insurance for more Americans including millions of children.
- It is now the law of the land that women get equal pay for equal work. I still can't believe it took until 2009 for that to happen.
- We no longer humiliate our brave soldiers because of who they love. Despite what we were told, that change didn't weaken our military. But now that it's done the odds of a Romney one day serving have increased to one in ten.
- Obama has actually put in place fewer regulations on businesses than George Bush did in his first term. Fewer regulations under Obama. I bet that's a surprise. It appears that Mitt Romney, Donald Trump and the Koch Brothers can remain fabulously wealthy even if Obama remains President.
- We are now drilling more and producing more domestic oil than before. Even though Mitt seems to think every private citizen has an oil well in their garden, much of the increase has indeed been on public lands not just on private lands. Obama finally told oil companies to shit or get off the pot.
- President Obama has actually lowered taxes. He retained the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and has lowered taxes for the middle class as well. Don't believe me? Romney's tax rate is 33% lower than the percentage of Americans who are victims. (47-33=14)
- And while I am pretty sure Romney already knows this, China owns actually less than 10% of our national debt and almost any economic professor will tell you that's actually a good thing.
Well, will you listen to me? I sound like one of those weekend news shows on PBS –factually more accurate but not nearly as entertaining as Bill O'Reilly. I hope I didn't bore you too much.
My point is this. One candidate is talking about our future – green energy, improved schools, better roads and bridges, sustainable job and pay growth, diplomacy, allies around the world… The other candidate (the Republican) keeps going on and on about missile defense in Poland, war with Russia, mining for coal and the 1916 Navy. Somewhere, anywhere there is a wall that Romney is desperate to tear down. Poor dear. He's about 25 years too late and Putin is no Gorbachev.
Too bad we don't have Sarah Palin this year. She wore her crazy on her sleeve, but Romney is actually pretty good at misleading voters. Don't let him mislead you. He may look Presidential while he is lying, but do we really want to make this about looks? If we did that we would have to include the wives and Michelle Obama is a knock out.
We have a President who cares about all 100% of us. And he's good looking to boot. Let's keep him. I mean it. Really.
My nephew says to tell you that you are beating a dead horse with Palin. He says the line should be A Republican without a war is like a Kardashian without a sex tape. Maybe you can ask Matthew not to attach my name and picture to that one. Two more weeks, dear. Two more weeks and we can go back to working on the cookbook. Oh, and Helen, you heard it here first – Trump is an asshat.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Thousands of San Francisco Giants fans too eager to wait for Wednesday's victory parade welcomed home their World Series champions Monday, cheering and high-fiving the players as the team fresh from Detroit landed at SFO, then made a brief stop at AT&T Park to hoist their trophy.
"We love you!" fans shouted when the chartered plane landed at San Francisco International Airport on Monday afternoon, with fire hoses sending a watery welcome into the sky.
Series MVP Pablo Sandoval, who belted three home runs in the first game against Detroit that set the tone for the four-game sweep, was one of the first to descend the stairs of the chartered plane, grinning and waving to the crowd. After players and family members made their way to the stadium in several chartered buses, Sandoval carried the World Series trophy into the throng of fans before handing it off to another fan favorite, pitcher Sergio Romo.
Many of those die-hards will be lining the streets of downtown San Francisco at 11 a.m. Wednesday for the parade to celebrate the Giants second title in three years. It starts at the foot of Market Street near the Ferry Building and ends at City Hall. Fans are encouraged to take public transportation. BART, Caltrain, Muni and ferries will be adding extra service Wednesday morning. Commuters should buy their transit tickets at the stations a day early to avoid long lines.
"We are expecting at least the crowds we saw back in 2010 that were pretty massive, somewhere around a million plus," said Mary Currie, spokeswoman with the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District. "With all the excitement, we expect to see the same or increased levels of interest in the parade and ceremonies."
Mayor Ed Lee's office wasn't answering questions Monday about whether Hurricane Sandy's destructive path on the East Coast could force the city to consider delaying the Giants celebration.
Some fans on Monday just couldn't wait to show the Giants a little loyalty and love.
At AT&T Park on Monday afternoon, several thousand fans blew horns and held signs and cameras as the team made a pit stop at Willie Mays Plaza. Like kids at a swimming pool party, fans shouted "Marco!" and waited for others to shout back "Scuatro!" to honor the Giants' standout second baseman.
Courtney Cookson, 28, of San Mateo slept in her car overnight outside the stadium to make sure she didn't miss the triumphant return.
"It was worth it," said Cookson, wearing her Giants garb, right down to orange earrings. "I would do it again in a heartbeat just to welcome them home."
Mel Catubig, 39, of San Francisco, brought her two children to welcome back their favorite baseball team. Her daughter, Daniela, 12, wore her lucky Tim Lincecum jersey. "This shirt is completely dirty," Catubig said, "because we had our mojo and didn't want to wash it."
Catubig said she is conflicted about whether to bring her children to the parade Wednesday because they would miss their school Halloween parade. The team's World Series homecomings are starting to become a family tradition.
Daniela, also wearing an orange "Panda" hat to honor Sandoval, turned to her mother and asked, "Can they win again next year?"
Staff writer Erin Ivie contributed to this story. Contact Julia Prodis Sulek at 408-278-3409.